Heat management in space is like at the heart of all hard sci-fi.

The heist, "caught on film", had texture and warmth and an indescribable aura of authenticity that it would have lacked had it been shot with digital cameras.

I am going to decline to interview for a job because the company has a 60-day wait to get health insurance. This isn't a game anymore.

Unfortunately many of us would not be sure if that was an ad or just dialogue based on Grandma.

I saw a challenger with a charlie kirk memorial sticker in the back window and I didn't even know it was possible to be that divorced

Love too get recruiters in my inbox with jobs that I clearly do not have the legal qualifications to perform Can y'all at least pretend to read all of the info in my profile

For my own sanity I must believe that anyone who wants to drink raw milk has never seen a dairy cow on a farm up close

Translation: you can make up your own news.

so insanely fucking real for this

The AI people are like "well, when this pops, it'll just be the investors who lose some money" Does *anyone* remember 2008???? The investors getting wiped out cascades *immediately*

Broken piece of shit

Orioles are going to have to pay a premium to get anyone that good

I think one of my customers tried to slip an extra piece of hazardous waste on my truck that wasn't approved for shipment today. I don't need this shit, man. At least I caught it and had them remove it.

there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.

Phil spent 4 years at home with 10 kids and said "I'd rather face an NFL defense for several weeks, I need the break"

I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end

Oh, wow, a whole quarter? Of a budget that has no consequences for running over?

one year after paris hilton sat in that same chair hawking hideous pictures of ape cartoons perched on his desk, the NFT scam had bottomed out. remember that.

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic

So much of the tech industry involves violating the social contract while counting on you to continue to respect it

Trade for flacco you cowards

Gyms in airports are a great idea, of course i want to be shoulder to shoulder with people who just exercised but didn't have a clean change of clothes or time to shower

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

I've always thought that the whole "natural immunity is the best way to protect people" thing was a bit like saying "getting pregnant is the best form of birth control." Anyway, cool to see it's better for the immune system to see vaccine before virus from an effectiveness standpoint too.

One of the frustrating things about being an individual contributor is when management implements a corporate directive and I do it and then management pats themselves on the back for successful implementation. Congrats, I guess. I did what you told me to do because that's literally my job.

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

get in loser we're doing tv timeouts for soccer

It's easy to pile on people you don't like on social media for whatever reason, but no one is normalizing and embracing fascism more than the executive class. That can't be forgotten under the next administration.

Making everyone at work mad by suggesting Eddie Vedder was the first mumble rapper

*6-7

Jim Mora: You play to win the game. Ravens: Bet.

Starting to think the place my employer sends me for DOT physicals may not be the most fastidious. I haven't been 145 pounds since maybe 2001.

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

From a while back but... evergreen

Elon does not fundamentally believe that any government or governing body should be allowed to constrain or regulate him in any way and he is deploying all of the vast resources at his command to make it so governments should act accordingly

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

ben moran hit the post on a penalty get a brain, moran

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

Saying out loud that the FIFA peace prize is "one of the greatest honors of [your] life" should be embarrassing.

Kaggle hosting hackathons specifically for vibe coding is gross.

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

anyway this isn’t a legally difficult question it is a politically difficult question for the conservative majority and the only thing we’re waiting to see is if they will ignore political pressure and follow the clear text of the constitution or bend to the president’s demands.

worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants

The "Mr Beast is the antichrist" thing has legs but what if it was actually FIFA. Just, the whole of FIFA.

This came to me in a dream

Hmm, I wonder what kind of support my school offers for ADHD. Oh.